Black Women Imagining and Realizing Liberated Futures

Date
2022-04-30
Journal Title
Journal ISSN
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Publisher
Technical Communication Quarterly
Abstract
In the summer of 1881, a group of Black women formed The Washing Society of Atlanta by deploying extraorganizational technical communication to collectively bargain for better working conditions and wages. In this article, we illuminate the ways that Black women operated in a world dominated by an established order of racial hierarchy. We argue that the Washerwomen manifested a particular form of Black technical communication rooted in agency and advocacy.
Description
This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Taylor & Francis in Technical Communication Quarterly on 04/30/2022, available at: http://www.tandfonline.com/10.1080/10572252.2022.2069289. This article will be embargoed until 10/30/2023.
Keywords
Black TPC, Black Women in TPC, Social justice/ethics, History of technical communication/historical technical communication, Black Technical Communication
Citation
Jessica Edwards & Josie Walwema (2022) Black Women Imagining and Realizing Liberated Futures, Technical Communication Quarterly, DOI: 10.1080/10572252.2022.2069289